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With great distress, I have read recently of the denial of tenure to three of Harvard's most talented and respected junior faculty members, Alan Brinkley, Bradford A. Lee and Robert N. Watson. I had the pleasure and the privilege of being taught by all three before I graduated from the College in June 1985, and sincerely believe that the quality of my education would have been considerably lower had these teachers and I not crossed paths...
...rural culture extracts its lifeblood from the ritual of renewal, no place more than Iowa, the most agricultural of American states. Teachers, merchants, veterinarians and mechanics from the small towns link the farmers and help orchestrate community life. For the moment, some of the small towns are in more distress than the farmers. The Government provides no subsidy for grocers and drygoods merchants. Publisher Alan Smith, of Mount Ayr, Iowa, (pop. 1,900) used to run two-thirds of a page of delinquent taxes in his Record-News every year. Now he runs six or eight pages. How long before...
Whitehead said the reports indicated the 150 were all of the people who had left the ship and none was missing. He also said no distress calls had been received from the ship...
Experts estimate that the distress sale gave People a cash transfusion good for perhaps several months of life. Within that time, the airline must begin to succeed on the new course that it set in May, to become a conventional airline competing for business travelers. Many industry specialists are doubtful that People, with its reputation for spartan travel conditions and first-come, first-served seating, will be able to convince passengers that it has made the switch. Says J. Henry Riefle, general manager of Manhattan's Hardach Travel Service: "No matter what People Express does, it will always be perceived...
...Newark airline has earned the nickname "People Distress." Its North Terminal center, once deservedly known as "the Pit," has improved over the years, but it still resembles a bus terminal at rush hour. A replacement facility is a year to 18 months away from completion. Horror stories have spread along the discount-fare grapevine of endemic baggage losses on People flights and of travelers stranded for hours in Newark, Denver or San Francisco. Chairman Burr protests that "we're as professional as any airline out there," but the stories have evidently hurt. One People way of fighting back...